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Anonymous wrote:So it's no longer okay to call a skinhead or klansman deplorable? I must have missed the memo.

so . . .

1/4 of Americans are skinheads and klansmen?

wow - no clue those groups were growing so quickly

I have no trouble believing most Trump supporters are racist.

fine

I'm not arguing about numbers. I'm pointing out that there's a REASON people act as they do, and you're not going to eliminate a hostile belief system by calling people deplorable. These are angry people who will continue to share that anger with future generations.

Are you hoping that soon they'll all die off - or that some will escape and marry other races?

We are talking about the here and now - the folks who may not be racist but who are hurting AND those who are indeed racist. Do you think that by labeling them ALL as deplorable she'll unite the country?

You do realize you can be educated AND ignorant, yes?

She didn't say all were racist, just half. If you're offended about being called a racist then the truth must hurt.

Idiot, you make no sense. Even calling "half" his supporters racists is a sweeping generalization. Did she do a study on his supporters?

Focusing on generalizations isn't a trait of a racist. But go on thinking you have a PhD in equity and human relations.

She did not disrespect any hard working Americans. She deplored the bigots. Now are you telling me a bigot who is hard working can't be deplored for being a bigot and appreciated for being a hard worker. These are different qualities and mutually exclusive. It's like saying racists shouldn't be called out because they are hard working. Come on now, already.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump has called women fat pigs and dogs, but it's a travesty for Clinton to say some of Trump's supporters are racists? Talk about a double standard!

You can argue all you want that it's okay to call half of Trumps supporters deplorable. The lack of respect for hard working people will hurt her with voters. Whether or not it's a great comment or completely justified, it shouldn't have come from a potential leader of our nation.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump has called women fat pigs and dogs, but it's a travesty for Clinton to say some of Trump's supporters are racists? Talk about a double standard!

You can argue all you want that it's okay to call half of Trumps supporters deplorable. The lack of respect for hard working people will hurt her with voters. Whether or not it's a great comment or completely justified, it shouldn't have come from a potential leader of our nation.

Is this the latest talking point you've received, to lump "hard working people" in with the Storm Fronters Hillary was actually talking about when she said they were deplorable?

Here again is the full quote (Jeff, delete this if it violates the copyright stuff): I know there are only 60 days left to make our case—and don’t get complacent, don’t see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think well he’s done this time. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people—now [have] 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks—they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket—and I know this because I see friends from all over America here—I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas—as well as, you know, New York and California—but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

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Anonymous wrote:So Clinton is criticized for not being authentic and being too calculated in what she says, and then she speaks her mind and tells the truth, and now that's a bad thing?

FWIW, the white nationalists like David Duke who support Trump in large numbers ARE racists. The Trump supporters whose main attack on Clinton is to call her a bitch, say she sucks more than Monica, and want to inflict violence on her ARE misogynist. I don't see any issue with calling them out.

Then point to THEM instead of insulting "1/4" of Americans. She - the "educated one" - is no better than Trump in making a sweeping generalization about people.

Ignorance doesn't win against ignorance. Is this what we want for our country? to one up each other?

Have you ever been to a Trump rally or seen video footage of one or even read the reports of journalists attending them? Scary stuff.

She was talking about those people. And saying only half of them are deplorable is being pretty generous.

No

You don't attack people. Even if people are calling her a fat pig or a demented old lady, she - the supposed role model - shouldn't stoop down to his level. And she's almost there. She's dividing the country, too, with her rhetoric.

It's not acceptable in her case either.

But you're saying a tit for tat is fine.

That's what's wrong with American.

So we need to implode - which will happen soon enough - before we can build ourselves back up.

Calling a racist deplorable is not the equivalent of calling Clinton a fat bitch. Merriam-Webster definition of deplorable: lamentable or deserving censure or contempt. I totally agree that racists and homophobes and misogynists are lamentable and deserving of censure.

Would you decry politicians of the 1950s and 60s who called the segregationists and lynchers deplorable? I admire those who spoke out against the racists of those times.

You're not very bright, PP.

in snippets for your pea brain to handle:

1. NO candidate/potential leader to stoop to that level.
2. NO candidate/potential leader should speak in sweeping generalizations.

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Anonymous wrote:So it's no longer okay to call a skinhead or klansman deplorable? I must have missed the memo.

so . . .

1/4 of Americans are skinheads and klansmen?

wow - no clue those groups were growing so quickly

Anonymous wrote:Just remembered, HRC did her thesis on Alinsky This is rule #13: Pick a target, freeze it, isolate it. Kind of like Goebbels did.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump has called women fat pigs and dogs, but it's a travesty for Clinton to say some of Trump's supporters are racists? Talk about a double standard!

You can argue all you want that it's okay to call half of Trumps supporters deplorable. The lack of respect for hard working people will hurt her with voters. Whether or not it's a great comment or completely justified, it shouldn't have come from a potential leader of our nation.

Anonymous wrote:Apparently she apologized. She should. Insulting voters isn't a good way to get votes [/quote

she shouldn't have. taht makes her look weak. She should've doubled down and named and shamed.